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Today's Word "thaumaturgy"
thaumaturgy \THAW-muh-tuhr-jee\ (noun) - The performance of miracles or magic.
"That's where I was really good -- thaumaturgy. Thaumaturgy is traditional magic, all about drawing symbolic links between items or people and...Read more
There Was a Farmer Had a Dog
The initials in the "equation" below stand for words. Can you figure out the phrase? (ex.: 60 S in a M = 60 Seconds in a Minute)
1 = F S on a B C
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